Fareastdriver,
Yes quite a number of PPRuNers have served under the banner of that famous feline (at various times, for it has had many reincarnations, Wiki knows all about it).
Bit of a shame that the suffix: "Hyderabad" seems to have been taken off the wording; rather ungrateful as the Nizam of that princely State coughed up for a whole squadron of aircraft for the RFC in WWI, and did the same for the RAF in WWII (I believe). Any offers of a squadron of F-35s from our business community (BAE ?). Thought not.
But then, I suppose, the Princely States have been airbrushed out of history, for the Governments of India and Pakistan are still slightly touchy about the British Raj (which at its height only directly governed 60% of the subcontinent: the remaining 40% being ruled indirectly through the Rajahs and Maharajahs). The Nizam of Hyderabad (reputedly the richest man in the world) was in the Premier League of these.
Danny.
"Far-called our navies melt away—
On dune and headland sinks the fire—
Lo, all our pomp of yesterday
Is one with Nineveh and Tyre!
Judge of the Nations, spare us yet,
Lest we forget—lest we forget!"
(Kipling: Recessional)